{"id":35176,"date":"2022-03-04T16:11:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T21:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35176"},"modified":"2022-04-19T15:56:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T19:56:12","slug":"pure-paste-1-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/04\/pure-paste-1-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Paste 1.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/app\/id1611378436\">Sindre Sorhus<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sindresorhus\/status\/1499088066614804481\">tweet<\/a>, via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rjonesy\/status\/1499120363657170946\">Ryan Jones<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/app\/id1611378436\"><p>How many times have you pasted some text into an email and ended up with a mess of different font sizes?<\/p>\n<p>Pure Text lets you paste as plain text by default. It sits in the menu bar and clears formatting (fonts, colors, bold, links, tables, etc.) from the text you copy. However, it does not touch unrelated content like files, images, etc. It also ignores content copied from password managers.<\/p>\n<p>You can also choose to manually clear formatting whenever needed instead of automatically.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s free, and the new version lets you automatically exclude certain apps.<\/p>\n<p>Note that it <em>does<\/em> strip images that are <em>mixed in<\/em> with the copied text. And, for apps like OmniOutliner that use <em>different characters<\/em> for plain text vs. rich text, it will give you the plain text characters rather than just removing the formatting.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the apps that I paste into support <strong>Paste and Match Style<\/strong>, and for the ones that don&rsquo;t I&rsquo;ve been in the habit of pasting into an empty BBEdit window and then copying again in order to clear the formatting. So I don&rsquo;t think this is really something I need, but it&rsquo;s an easy way to get the behavior most users probably want most of the time.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/30\/paste-without-style\/\">Paste Without Style<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"pure-paste-1-1-update-2022-03-07\">Update (2022-03-07): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chucker\/status\/1500092084593823746\">S&ouml;ren<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chucker\/status\/1500092084593823746\">\n<p>Microsoft Office does this better. After(!) pasting, it shows you a contextual menu where you can choose different modes of which styles you wish to keep, and each one comes with a live preview (and they also come with an access key if you remember your preference for this case).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&rsquo;s cool, but unfortunately Excel doesn&rsquo;t have a one-step <strong>Paste and Match Style<\/strong> command.<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"pure-paste-1-1-update-2022-04-19\">Update (2022-04-19): <a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2022\/04\/18\/five-solutions-for-pasting-plain-text-on-a-mac\/\">Josh Centers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2022\/04\/18\/five-solutions-for-pasting-plain-text-on-a-mac\/\">\n<p>There are numerous ways to solve this problem. Some are free, and others take advantage of a commercial utility that you may already have for another purpose. If the built-in solutions don&rsquo;t work in your particular workflow, turn to one of the alternatives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sindre Sorhus (tweet, via Ryan Jones): How many times have you pasted some text into an email and ended up with a mess of different font sizes? Pure Text lets you paste as plain text by default. It sits in the menu bar and clears formatting (fonts, colors, bold, links, tables, etc.) from the text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-03-04T21:11:35Z","apple_news_api_id":"2748f862-f49b-4eef-adc7-057ca1a59d78","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-04-19T19:56:15Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AJ0j4YvSbTu-txwV8oaWdeA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[154,30,32,2077,609,577,580,1670,2178],"class_list":["post-35176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bbedit","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-12","tag-microsoft-excel","tag-microsoft-office","tag-omnioutliner","tag-pasteboard","tag-pure-paste"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35629,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35176\/revisions\/35629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}